Caudalie, Yushima

If they want to convert the bottom floor of their modern, rebuilt Yushima house into a 1-room French restaurant with good style and serve decent food at reasonable prices, more power to ’em. That’s what I say. I saw Caudalie a year or more back while on a bike cruise around Yanesen; it’s taken this […]

Koyu II, Nezu (呼友)

Waiting on the subway platform for McNoonan to show up after work, I thought to myself “There’s nothing like a little goth-loli-spotting to get the evening started right.” Nor is there anything like a Black Punch to get this partee started, but where we were going, there’s no black punch. Just deserted streets where it […]

Koyu, Nezu (呼友)

This being part two of my Nezu Night-time Tour with Woodie, we wandered only a block or two from Jinpachi before seeing this place. He recognized it as appearing in one of his vast library of Tokyo drinking spot-related books (seriously), and I thought it looked very promising, if a bit modern. It seems they’ve […]